Magdy Abdel-Ghani, the former Al-Ahly club and Egypt national team star, confirmed that Al Ahly Farat scored a big victory once morest Moroccan Raja in the first leg of the African Champions League quarter-finals.
Abdel-Ghani added, during a telephone interview on the “Match” program presented by the journalist Hani Hathout on the “Sada Al-Balad” channel, that the South African Betso Mosimane, coach of Al-Ahly Club, made a mistake in giving Amr Al-Sulayya the opportunity to pay the second penalty kick to Al-Ahly, which the player missed, a decision It is borne by the technical staff of the team.
Abdel-Ghani continued, “The result of the Al-Ahly and Raja match is worrying” for Al-Ahly fans, stressing that the red team missed a real opportunity with a great victory, and it will be a historic result following wasting 4 real goals.
Magdy Abdel-Ghani indicated that Al-Ahly is able to score goals in the return match, which will be held next Friday in Morocco, due to the weakness of the Raja defenders.
Al-Ahly team defeated its Moroccan counterpart, Raja, 2-1, in the match that was held between the two teams, this evening, Saturday, at Al-Ahly and Al-Salam Stadium, in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the African Champions League.
Al-Ahly’s Amr Al-Sulayya scored in the 13th minute from a penalty kick, and Hussein Al-Shahat added the second goal in the 23rd minute, while Raja reduced the score in the first minute of stoppage time for the first half.
Al-Ahly player Amr Al-Sulayya missed a penalty kick for the Red Genie in front of Moroccan Raja, following Raja goalkeeper Anas Al-Zeniti saved the penalty kick for Al-Sulayya in the 60th minute of the second half, and the referee canceled a goal scored by Hamid Haddad for offside at the deadly time of the match.
The referee Nadala showed the red card to Marouane Hadhoudi, the Moroccan player of Raja, following touching the ball with his hand to be awarded a penalty kick for Al-Ahly club.
Al-Ahly formation for the Moroccan Raja match
Goalkeeper: Mohamed El-Shennawy.
Defense lines: Yasser Ibrahim, Ayman Ashraf, Mohamed Abdel Moneim and Mohamed Hani.
Midfield: Amr Al-Sulayya, Alio Diang and Hussein Al-Shahat.
Forwards: Percy Tau, Ahmed Abdelkader and Mohamed Sharif.
The formation of Raja once morest Al-Ahly for today’s match was as follows:
Goalkeeper: Anas Al-Zeniti.
Defence: Marwan Hadhoudi, Jamal Harkas, Elias Haddad and Osama Sokhani.
Midfield: Abdelilah Madkour, Badr Bolhrad, Mohamed Zuraida, Makhasi and Mohsen Metwally.
Offensive line: Hamid Haddad.
It is worth noting that the winner of the Al-Ahly and Raja match will qualify to meet the victor of the Tunisian Esperance match and Algeria’s ES Setif in the semi-finals of the African Champions League.
The football team bus arrived at the club Al Ahly Al-Salam Stadium, a while ago, to face Moroccan Raja in the match that will bring them together at ten in the evening, in the first leg of the quarter-finals of the African Champions League.
The technical staff of the team, led by Pitso Mosimane, inspected the pitch upon arrival at Al-Ahly and Al-Salam Stadium, before the start of the warm-up process that precedes the upcoming match.
25 players in the match list
Al-Ahly coach Pitso Mosimane chose the team’s list that entered a closed camp the day before yesterday, Thursday; In preparation for facing the upcoming night, the list includes: Mohamed El-Shennawy, Mahmoud Metwally, Yasser Ibrahim, Hamdi Fathi, Hossam Hassan, Mohamed Sharif, Ayman Ashraf, Hussein El-Shahat, Aliou Diang, Ali Lotfi, Amr Al-Soliya, Salah Mohsen, Mohamed Magdy Afsha. Mahmoud Waheed, Ali Maaloul, Mohamed Mahmoud, Percy Tau, Mohamed Abdel Moneim, Taher Mohamed Taher, Karim Fouad, Louis Micconi, Mohamed Hani, Mustafa Schubert, Ahmed Abdel Qader, Walid Suleiman.
Details of the technical meeting of the Al-Ahly and Moroccan Raja match in the Champions League
The dates of Saturday’s matches and the carrier channels.. most notably the Al-Ahly match once morest Moroccan Raja
